On Friday night, May 18, Santa Fe High School’s varsity baseball team was scheduled to play...
Community Health & Safety
Will Saturday’s March For Our Lives Events Lead to a Change in Public Policy? Yes. No. Maybe.
The young speakers who took the stage, one after the other, at Saturday’s #MarchForOurLives rally...
The “Recidivism Trap,” Or Why Measuring Failure Is the Wrong Way to Determine Whether Justice Policies Work
When we look at how well or poorly a program or strategy in the criminal justice realm is working...
LA County Supes Aim at Gun Violence With Call for Stricter County Firearm Regulations & Creation of An Office of Violence Prevention
On Tuesday March 13, LA County Supervisors Mark Ridley-Thomas and Sheila Kuehl will ask their...
Prop. 47 Not Responsible for Crime Rate Increases in 2015, Says New UCI Study—Prosecutors Disagree, UPDATED
by Taylor Walker & Celeste Fremon California’s voter-approved Proposition 47—which...
How the Worst Kind of Personal Sorrow Led LA Violence Reduction Expert Aqeela Sherrills to Help Newark, NJ, Lower Its Murder Rate
Aqeela Sherrills, a former Grape Street Crip, who was one of the primary architects of the famous...